Coal-delivery wagon.



PATENTBD MAR. 24, 1908.

J. CAMPBELL. COAL DELIVERY WAGON. ABPLIQATION FILED IAR.15,1907.

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No. 882,868. I V PATENTE'D MAR. 24, 1908.

J. OAMPBBLL'.' 8

GOAL DELIVERY WAGON. APPLIOATIEOH FILED HAB.'15.1907.

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.mnis-iinin CAMPBELL, or PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

COAL-DELIVERY WAGON.

No. scenes.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 15, 1907.

Patented March 24, 19 08.

Serial NO. 362,538.

To all 107mm. it may concern:

Be it known that I, J nnnnmn CAMPBELL, of Providence, in'the county ofProvidence and State of llhode Island, a citizen of the United States,have invented. a new and use-' filllllllJl'O'VGIl'lGllll inCoal-Delivery Vl agons, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification in. explaining its nature.

My invention consists 'primaril y in a coal delivery wagon from whichcoal is delivered at the side of the wagon so that it is unnecessary toback up the wagon in order to deliver the coal. 3

My invention consists, also; in a delivery wagon having a plurality ofcompartments from each one of which coalmay be delivered so'that thewagon may carry di'll'erent kinds of coal at the same time.

My invention consists also in various details of construction all ofwhich. can best be seen and understood by reference to the draw ings inivhich- Figure 1 is aside elevation of a wagon em bodying my invention.Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Figs 3 is ahorizontal section on the-line 3- 3 of Fig. 1. Figs. 4 and 5 areenlarged details of construction to which especial reference will bemade. Fig. 6 shows'mainly in side elevation a portion of a wagon showinga further embodiment of my invention to .which special reference willhereinafter be made. Fig. 7 shows a cross section on the line 7-7 ofFig. 6.

In the drawings :-A represents awagon the running gear of which supportsa body B which by! means of a partition 0 and folding doors C C hingedto the partition by the hinges c, is divided into separate compartmentsor bins I), D These compartments have floors or bottoms d and (1',respectively, inclined towards the outlets of the compartments, and itis these outlets from the compartments which the folding doors (J areadapted to close. These doors when closed occupy an inclined position sothat when the doors are opened they will swing but a short distancebplow the lower ends of the inclined bottoms to the separate cmpartments and not to interfere with the chute into which thecompartments empty. ()n this account the doors are hinged to thepartition 0 at a point ing door G in place toclose the chute. .arm 9mounted on one end of the rod giproas the doors are hinged at a pointnot only above but beyond the lower ends of themclined bottoms to therespective compartments they hang normally in a vertical, open position.with respect to the outlets to the compartments. in their closedposition and each door is so The foldin doors are shown held by means ofa series of fingers e, each of which is attached to a rod E mounted ineyes 6 one on each side of the body of the wagon.

Therod E passes out through one side of the body of t e wagon andconnects outside thereof with a handle e which, when the- Bothcompartments 1) and D empty into a common delivery chute F, the ipclinedbottom f of which leads to the side of the wagon. The lower end of thechute F is closed by a swinging door which is hung from the bottom ofthe wagon at the top of the chute by hinges g. The door is provlded witha locking means consisting of a rod 9 hung in eyes 9 dependent from thelower end of the chute. The rod g carries fingers 9 adapted as shown inlig. 2 to hold the swing An jects upward and is connected by a hook gwith an eye 9 on the under part of the body of the wagon.

outward and the door G released to open allowing the load from the chuteto pass out.

In addition the door G has the usual slide customary in the tail-boardof coal and other wagons. This slide is shown. at II confined in waysformed by'the strips h, the slide be ing provided with a handle 71. sothat it may be moved up and down. This slide may be used when the coalis to be unloaded by basket. a

In Figs. 6 and 7 I have shown a wagon having a plurality of coalcarrying compartments and chutes leading to different or 0pposite sidesof the Wagon.

The coal carrying compartments are D and l) before described separatedby the partition C and with the outlets of the com- This hook y can bereadilyunhooked so that the arm 9 may be swung per to the opposite sidesof the wagon.

F hinged at the point f into the chutes F F released to open (see Fi 7).

extends through the si e wall of the 'chute' partments closed by theswinging doors C 0 respectively. Both the compartments D and D emptyinto what may be termed a combined hopper and chute F; a hopper inthesense that it receives the coal from the several compartmentspreparatory to its delivery from the wagon, and a chute that it properlydirects and assists in the delivery of the coal into the chutes F and Fextending from the l ilcilp- 1s hopper F is preferably made V-shapedwith inclined sides f and f prise in part folding doors f, f, which are5 and open outwardly These doors are shown closed, which is their normalposition, and they are held so closed, but so as to be released to openin the following manner 2 Fastened to the upper end of each door, orrather to. a lug f projecting therefrom, isa chain f. This chain isadapted to be wound upon or unwound from a shaft f by which meansthe,d0or is closedand held closed, or

F or-F with which it connects, and on the outer end of the shaft,outside the chute, is

a gear Meshing with this gear is a ear f arranged on the end of a shaftf w ich extends toward the side-of the Wagon and is journaled in aproper fixture of support f secured to the body of the wagon. The endsof the shaft f are accessible from the sides of the wagon and areadapted to receive instruments by which the shaft may be turned sooperating the folding doors as aforesaid.

As said before, the chutes F F lead, respectively, to opposite sidesof-the wagon so that as one door or the other door, f, is opened thecoal W'l be directed into one chute or the other and thereby bedelivered from the corresponding side of the wagon. In this connectionit is to be noted. that the sides of the hopper F preferably have thesame inclination as the bottom f 13 and f 14 of the chutes F, Fextending from the hopper, so that when one door of the hopper is openedThese sides 'com- Each shaft is delivered from the wagon and moved ofito the place of final discharge, or the coal may be discharged bylifting the door'G, as

above described.

The advantage of this wagon will be apparent to those skilled in theart. The wagon is driven to the curb for unloading like any express orgrocers wagon. It may bring two kinds of fuel to the same house-or itmay bring a load of fuel to one house and after delivering it carry thecontents of its other bin to another place of delivery, or both bins maybe filled with the same coal for the same location.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States 1. A wagon having a plurality ofcoal-can rying compartments, a hopper common to said compartments,releasable means closing each of said compartments from said hopper, achute leading from said hopper, and releasable means closing said hopperfrom said chute. v

2. A wagon having a plurality of coal-carrying compartments, a hoppercommon to said compartments into which the coal empties therefrom,releasable means closing each of said compartments from said hopper, aplurality of delivery chutes leading from said hopper, and releasablemeans closing said hopper from each of said chutes.

JEREMIAH CAMPBELL.

Witnesses:

GEORGE O. G. COALE, M. E. FLAIIERTY.

